Job Title: Advisor
PVN ID: KB-1809-002722
Category: Instruction and Social Service
Location: KINGSBOROUGH C. C.

Job Description

General Description

  • Supports the Office of Student Success with a variety of college wide retention initiatives including: New Student Orientation, At risk population workshops, Early semester registration (including the recruitment for the JUMP START program) and claiming your college E-Mail campaigns, completing SPARC, Degree Works tutorials, CUNYfirst workshops, etc.
  • Work with the Director of the Student Success Center to establish a needs assessment to provide equity to the distribution of SPARK and Rudin book voucher funds.
  • Track the distribution of textbook vouchers using the Assist Me App, SPARK fund and the KCC Rudin fund.
  • Liaison to our Kingsborough Now in the Neighborhood Community Partners and BKON partners; represent KCC at recruitment events; be the assigned academic advisor to our shared students.
  • Assist students with concerns/issues involving the areas of financial hardship and academic difficulties and resolves them appropriately so that they can stay enrolled in college.
  • Support the Office of Financial Aid in assisting students with completing their FAFSA and provide information to these students about the requirements necessary to receive federal and state aid.
  • Monitor and supervise the CARA Peer Leader program: develop programming, oversee the workshops and supervise the Peer Leaders and the student cohorts.
  • Collaborate with the Office of Academic Affairs, Enrollment Management, Freshman Services, Learning Communities and Single Stop
  • Be knowledgeable about degree requirements and be able to meet and provide academic advisement to students.
  • Interacts with all offices on campus
  • Ensures strict confidentiality and sensitivity in all aspects of office operations.
  • Performs related duties in all areas of Student Affairs as needed.
  • Able to work evenings and weekends during peak times.

 

Other Duties

Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree required. Two years of work experience.
  • Strong organizational skills with ability to establish priorities, manage multiple demands and projects, and meet deadlines.
  • Knowledge of all areas relating to Student Affairs.
  • A strong student service orientation required.
  • Ability to take initiative, resolve problems diplomatically and discreetly and work effectively, cooperatively, and independently with all levels of staff and students.

 

RFCUNY Benefits

RFCUNY Employee Benefits and Accruals

About the Research Foundation

The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.

RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The Research Foundation of the City University of New York is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Americans with Disabilities Act/E-Verify Employer. It is the policy of the Research Foundation of CUNY to provide equal employment opportunities free of discrimination based on race, color, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, domestic violence victim status, arrest record, criminal conviction history, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Key Features

Department
Dean of Student Affairs
Status
Full Time
Annual Salary Range
$50,000.00 - $53,000.00
Closing Date
Oct 30, 2018 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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